Ka Rica-Tar on LP

Following their deft handling of music from Eastern and Northern Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk on Unstraight Ahead, Karl Hector & The Malcouns are back with an vinyl-only EP - the fourth in a series that included Tamanrasset, Ngugna Yeti Fofa and Coomassi - that represents the band's completion of a cycle of musical forms from around the world, and combines European, African, Middle Eastern and American styles into something new, and of course, pretty damn groovy.